“Just In! Zelensky Demands Russia Return All Territory Gained Since 2014”
It’s OUTBURSTS like this that will also lose him Odessa and Kharkiv.
He made his statement, now let him enforce it, without our aid.
If the US has given back its intel contributions to Ukraine - Zelensky it should pull it back. Obviously, Zelensky is not serious about peace.
I suppose the best hopeful take on this is that it is an attempt to salvage somethin out of non-Russian occupied Ukraine, by asking for the moon and settling for a lesser but still acceptable compromise offer. The Ukranian difficulty is that they are negotiating from apparent weakness and there is no visible means of improving that leverage.
I think somebody recently tried to talk sense to Zelensky and said “You don’t hold the cards for this”. Well, he doesn’t, but just refuses to admit it. He wants to bargain from a map that existed 10 years ago. He’s lucky the Russians don’t want to negotiate from a map as it existed 120 years ago, when there was no Ukraine whatsoever.